All articles by Geoffrey Macnab – Page 4
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FeaturesRoger Ross Williams on social-issue stories and shaking up Ampas’s documentary branch
The US director of films including God Loves Uganda, Life, Animated and Stamped From The Beginning held a masterclass at Sheffield Doc/Fest.
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FeaturesHow UK indie exhibitors are engaging younger audiences with arthouse cinema
“We are seeing a flourishing of young cinephile audiences.”
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NewsUK VFX sector sounds alarm on exclusion of generative AI from additional tax relief (exclusive)
“It doesn’t look a coherent policy decision to exclude AI,” said UK Screen Alliance CEO Neil Hatton.
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FeaturesIs the indie tax credit finally making the UK a valuable co-production partner?
European producers are taking notice.
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NewsAsmae El Moudir lines up first fiction feature ‘Holy Cow’ (exclusive)
El Moudir won the Best Director award in Un Certain Regard last year with her documentary The Mother of All Lies.
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NewsIdo Abram appointed artistic director of Netherlands Film Festival
Dutch industry veteran will work alongside business director Marjolijn Bronkhuyzen.
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NewsMedia Luna strikes multi-territory deal on ‘Perdida - Lost Sofia’ (exclusive)
Paris-based Factoris Films buys rights.
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NewsFrancesca Archibugi to direct ‘The Italian Chapel’ for Blue Horizon, Greenboo Production (exclusive)
The long-gestating project has revived thanks to the new UK tax credit.
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FeaturesSouth Africa is aiming to become a global player in the film and TV sector
South Africa is hoping to entice even more international production partners with its wide range of benefits, both financial and creative.
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NewsCannes Market brings in measures to alleviate Palais access bottlenecks
Long lines caused frustration over first four days.
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News“Systemic racism and prejudice” hampering some international co-productions, says EAVE
There are calls from the Think Tank members for coproduction treaties to be radically revised and rewritten.
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NewsAmsterdam comedy club ‘Boom Chicago’ that launched Seth Meyers and Jordan Peele, to get the doc treatment (exclusive)
Dutch filmmakers Sanne Kortooms and Marte Visser are at the helm.
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FeaturesRungano Nyoni talks feeling the pressure with her second film ‘On Becoming A Guinea Fowl’
The feature is showing in Cannes Un Certain Regard
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NewsKey Benelux buyer laments high prices (exclusive)
Pim Hermeling is head of Benelux-based September Films.
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NewsIDFA director unveils festivals symposium to address era of protest
“We need to examine our position so that we are not just relics of the past, protectors of conservative world views,” said Orwa Nyrabia.
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NewsSergei Loznitsa gears up to shoot Stalin-era drama ’Two Prosecutors’ (exclusive)
Film based on a novel by little known Russian writer Georgy Demidov.
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NewsClaire Simon developing Annie Ernaux feature (exclusive)
The feature doc will look at the reaction of high school and university students to Ernaux’s work.
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NewsCannes Film Festival welcomes resilient Ukrainian industry
Against heavy odds, fictional films are being made in Ukraine.
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NewsVue, Andy Paterson, Dimension Studios team for Virtual Circle slate of UK features (exclusive)
Tim Richards’ Vue will release the films directly into its cinemas.
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NewsPalestinian-Israeli doc ‘No Other Land’ heads to key territories including UK-Ire, Spain and France (exclusive)
Autlook Filmsales is handling the title that won the Panorama audience award at the Berlinale.